A court decision today in a case against people accused of sharing copyrighted files on peer-to-peer networks brought some good news for those concerned about the way the recording industry is pursuing its litigation campaign.
In Sony v. Does 1-40, Judge Denny Chin denied (PDF) a motion to...

The two brothers who created the fantastic "This Land" parody -- sending up President Bush, Senator Kerry, and the current state of American democracy to the tune of "This Land is Your Land" -- have been threatened with a copyright lawsuit.
You see, the classic American...

Susan Crawford, responding to the Jonathan Krim article we mentioned earlier today about TiVo and the FCC's broadcast flag mandate (PDF):

The flag was supposed to be about indiscriminate online distribution. TiVo is trying to provide a device that allows 10 people within a personal network...

For a while there, it looked like TiVo could avoid (some of) the copyright battles that felled the competition by playing nice with the content industry. But as this MSNBC Washington Post article shows, sometimes even asking for permission to innovate isn't enough:

Hollywood studios and the National...

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld a preliminary injunction in the COPA case, it's time to turn our attention to another important obscenity case that has broad implications for the future of online anonymity.
Within the next year, a federal court in New York City will...

The controversial passenger-profiling system has officially been cancelled, but critics remain appropriately skeptical about what its "death" means. Below, a brief sampling of perspectives:
Edward Hasbrouck @ The Practical Nomad: "Hours after announcing that the CAPPS II airline passenger profiling and monitoring system would be ...

Responding to growing public and congressional criticism of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Department of Justice this week released a new report to Congress singing its praises.
As other commentators have already pointed out, the DoJ report, entitled "Report from the Field: The USA PATRIOT Act...